JUMPY Synonyms

• characterized by jerky movements

• being in a tense state

• troubled emotionally and usually deeply

• physically disturbed or set in motion

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• quick to understand

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm

• nervous and unable to relax

• of or relating to the nervous system

• easily agitated

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• excited in anticipation

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• worried and uneasy

• ceaselessly in motion

• nervous and unable to relax

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• Susceptible to twitching a lot.

• Irritable, cranky

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• covered with or full of bumps

• being in a tense state

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• being in a tense state

• showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger

• offensively bold

• being in a tense state

• too tightly strung

• being in a tense state

• impatient especially under restriction or delay

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• abounding in rocks or stones

• liable to rock

• full of hardship or trials

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form